(was originally part of Bug #239997) While debugging the issue mentioned in Bug #239997, I added a `showconfig' command which I found useful enough to leave it in and document it in the man page. Like discussed somewhere else, I also added an `updatesready' command that can be used to check if there are any pending fetched updates that can be installed. It exits on status code 2 in case there aren't any pending updates so that if one can tell apart exit 1 (=error) from it (right now there is no code path for that, but if more checks are added in the future this could be useful). Finally, I changed the exit code of freebsd-update install in case there are no updates pending to be installed and there wasn't a fetch phase to 2 - this should allow future scripts to differentiate between "error" and "nothing to be done" without breaking existing jail managers like ezjail and iocell. See also: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=239997 https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=240177
A commit references this bug: Author: grembo Date: Tue Sep 24 20:49:33 UTC 2019 New revision: 352662 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/352662 Log: freebsd-update: Add `updatesready' and `showconfig' commands `freebsd-update updatesready' can be used to check if there are any pending fetched updates that can be installed. `freebsd-update showconfig' writes freebsd-update's configuration to stdout. This also changes the exit code of `freebsd-update install' to 2 in case there are no updates pending to be installed and there wasn't a fetch phase in the same invocation. This allows scripts to tell apart these error conditions without breaking existing jail managers. See freebsd-update(8) for details. PR: 240757, 240177, 229346 Reviewed by: manpages (bcr), sectam (emaste), yuripv Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D21473 Changes: head/usr.sbin/freebsd-update/freebsd-update.8 head/usr.sbin/freebsd-update/freebsd-update.sh
A commit references this bug: Author: grembo Date: Thu Sep 26 16:33:21 UTC 2019 New revision: 352758 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/352758 Log: MFC r352513, r352514, r352662: As suggested by koobs, MFC recent freebsd-update changes to have a consistent user experience on all supported versions. r352513: freebsd-update.8: appease igor igor follows American style guides in the belief that abbreviations i.e. and e.g. are always followed by a comma. Make that change now so that future updates to freebsd-update.8 do not complain about this. r352514: freebsd-update: make usage output consistent Drop trailing . which appeared only on description of IDS. r352662: freebsd-update: Add `updatesready' and `showconfig' commands `freebsd-update updatesready' can be used to check if there are any pending fetched updates that can be installed. `freebsd-update showconfig' writes freebsd-update's configuration to stdout. This also changes the exit code of `freebsd-update install' to 2 in case there are no updates pending to be installed and there wasn't a fetch phase in the same invocation. This allows scripts to tell apart these error conditions without breaking existing jail managers. PR: 240757, 240177, 229346 Reviewed by: manpages (bcr), secteam (emaste), yuripv Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D21473 Changes: stable/11/usr.sbin/freebsd-update/freebsd-update.8 stable/11/usr.sbin/freebsd-update/freebsd-update.sh
A commit references this bug: Author: grembo Date: Thu Sep 26 16:34:43 UTC 2019 New revision: 352759 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/352759 Log: MFC r352513, r352514, r352662: As suggested by koobs, MFC recent freebsd-update changes to have a consistent user experience on all supported versions. r352513: freebsd-update.8: appease igor igor follows American style guides in the belief that abbreviations i.e. and e.g. are always followed by a comma. Make that change now so that future updates to freebsd-update.8 do not complain about this. r352514: freebsd-update: make usage output consistent Drop trailing . which appeared only on description of IDS. r352662: freebsd-update: Add `updatesready' and `showconfig' commands `freebsd-update updatesready' can be used to check if there are any pending fetched updates that can be installed. `freebsd-update showconfig' writes freebsd-update's configuration to stdout. This also changes the exit code of `freebsd-update install' to 2 in case there are no updates pending to be installed and there wasn't a fetch phase in the same invocation. This allows scripts to tell apart these error conditions without breaking existing jail managers. PR: 240757, 240177, 229346 Reviewed by: manpages (bcr), secteam (emaste), yuripv Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D21473 Changes: stable/12/usr.sbin/freebsd-update/freebsd-update.8 stable/12/usr.sbin/freebsd-update/freebsd-update.sh
A commit references this bug: Author: grembo Date: Thu Sep 26 20:56:08 UTC 2019 New revision: 352774 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/352774 Log: MF stable/12 r352759,r352771 Approved by: re (gjb) r352759: freebsd-update.8: Style fixes, document new features. freebsd-update: Make usage output consistent. freebsd-update: Add `updatesready' and `showconfig' commands freebsd-update: Change exit code of `freebsd-update install' to 2 in case there are no pending updates and there wasn't a fetch phase in the same invocation. r352771: Add mergeinfo missing in r352759 PR: 240757, 240177, 229346 Reviewed by: manpages (bcr), secteam (emaste), yuripv Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D21473 Changes: _U releng/12.1/ releng/12.1/usr.sbin/freebsd-update/freebsd-update.8 releng/12.1/usr.sbin/freebsd-update/freebsd-update.sh